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Wanted: Tactical Units with Strong Fitness Cultures
Adam Scott, MS, CSCS This week we released our Assessment of a Midsize, Urban, Midwestern Fire Department. This report applied the Fitness Culture Assessment we developed for tactical units to a...
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The First Responder Project
By Rob Shaul Today we’re announcing the “First Responder Project.” The mission of the First Responder Project is to be a resource, beacon of inspiration and a like-minded community for First...
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Built for the Backcountry- Podcast
We were featured on the Backcountry Hunting Podcast with the Team at Exo Mountain Gear. Great company, great products! Built for the Backcountry: We all know that hunting the backcountry effectively...
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Plan Focus: “Resilience”
By Rob Shaul “Resilience” is the 4th installment of our “Virtue” series of training plans, and joins Fortitude, Valor and Humility to represent our most up to date programming theory. The focus of...
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Help Needed Developing a Tactical Athlete Work Capacity Standard
Adam Scott, MS, CSCS Work capacity is a major component of a tactical athlete’s fitness. The ability to perform during short/intense events is vital to a tactical athlete’s operational effectiveness...
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Pull-Up Training Partnerships
The Mountain Tactical Institute (MTI) is happy to announce two new research partnerships. Both partners will be conducting research projects based on the pull-up study we completed earlier this summer....
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Plan Focus: Mountain Base Alpha
By Rob Shaul Day to day programming for Mountain Athletes is tricky. The problem is few mountain athletes have just one mountain sport. Rather, many mountain athletes seem to have a mountain sport for...
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LE Athlete Assessment: Where Do You Rank?
Adam Scott, MS, CSCS A little over a year ago we published our basic fitness assessment for Law Enforcement Athletes. Since then hundreds of athletes have completed the assessment. Some athletes...
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Four Lessons From The NTOA Conference
Adam Scott, MS, CSCS This past week we spent two days at the National Tactical Officers Association (NTOA) Conference in Salt Lake City, Utah. The NTOA Conference is one of the largest gatherings of...
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Fortitude: Strength and Endurance
By Rob Shaul This time last year the other military athlete lab rats had just finished up an intense strength and endurance cycle, which become Fortitude – the first in our “virtue” series of training...
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Operator Session Updates: Green, Blue and Triphasic Training
Adam Scott, MS, CSCS We are always looking for ways to improve our programming. Recently, using our professional skiers and lab rats, we have been experimenting with a few new concepts. Two of these...
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Ruck Deep Dive Study Update II: UCCS ROTC
Adam Scott, MS, CSCS This past week Mountain Tactical Institute (MTI) had the pleasure of completing the first phase of our official Ruck Deep Dive Study. We traveled to Colorado Springs and tested a...
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Virtue Series Packet Overview
By Rob Shaul The Virtue series of training plans represent the latest evolution of our programming theory for Military Athletes. This most recent evolution began in the late Summer/Fall, 2014 with...
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Interview with Freeski Athlete Hadley Hammer: To Compete or Not To Compete
Why I’m not Competing This Year. An interview with FreeSkier, Hadley Hammer Ferried World Tour Photo MA: You had a disappointing competition season last year, yet just last May, you said your goal for...
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Plan Focus – Dryland Skiing Training Plan
By Rob Shaul The Dryland Ski Training Plan is a great example of the intense focus we bring to our sport-specific, pre-season training plans, and the continual evolution and improvement of our...
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Upcoming Study: How do Energy Drinks Affect Marksmanship?
Adam Scott, MS, CSCS The first week of October, researchers with the Mountain Tactical Institute will be traveling to the Midwest to work with a full-time tactical unit from a State Law Enforcement...
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The True Impact of a Summer Guiding Season
Adam Scott, MS, CSCS Here in Jackson, WY the summer guiding season typically goes from Memorial Day to Labor Day. For our professional mountain guides this means a steady increase of work from the end...
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Developing A Work Capacity Standard Part II: Crossfit, Rowing and Cycling
Adam Scott, MS, CSCS Last month we looked at how to calculate power output in multimodal work capacity events. We also examined where these calculations can offer valuable insight and where they are...
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Upcoming Study: Power Clean v. Power Snatch. Which is Better at Creating...
Samuel McCue, USAW SPC-L1, CF-L1 Over the course of the next six weeks, the Mountain Tactical Institute will be working closely with a group of high school freshman consisting of both boys and girls at...
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Improve Your Pull-Ups and Help with Research
Adam Scott, MS, CSCS As we mentioned back in August (link), The Mountain Tactical Institute (MTI) is partnering with California State University, Monterery Bay, GRIT Strength and Conditioning in...
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